Lorentz, Hendrik Antoon (1853-1928) -- from Eric Weisstein's World of Scientific Biography

Dutch physicist who was converted from Helmholtz's electromagnetic theory by Hertz's experiments, which he felt were "the greatest triumph that Maxwell's theory has achieved." Using the Maxwellian framework, he proposed a universal theory of physics based purely on the concepts of electromagnetism.

The fundamental postulates, which were completely independent of mechanical principles, were presented in Versuch einer Theorie der elektrischen und optischen Erscheinungen in bewegten Körpern (Inquiry into a Theory of Electrical and Optical Phenomena in Moving Bodies, Leiden 1895).

Independently of Fitzgerald, Lorentz he suggested the null result of the Michelson-Morley experiment

resulted from a contraction of the arms of the interferometer in the direction of the Earth's

motion.

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